LiturgicalCredo.com is an onlineproject of wayfaring into the past for clues to our beginning and our end,and expressions of those clues. Thinkof the project as old paths newly rendered.

Ergo, LiturgicalCredo.com is devoted to:

The intersections of history with the present;

A belief in the continued meaningfulness of ancient forms of worship;

The aesthetic expressions that grow from those rituals and traditions;

The thought informed by those rituals and traditions;

Sacramental and Incarnational ways of seeing the world, i.e., views that acknowledge the value of the created, material world because of God's historical (Jesus of Nazareth) and current (Eucharistic bread and wine) presence within it;

Offering a platform for established and up-and-coming writers, artists and thinkers.

Colin BurchEditor & PublisherColin Burch spent 10 years in the newspaper business. During that time, he interviewed a diverse bunchof folks, including Dan Akroyd, P.J. O'Rourke, Pat Buchanan, former S.C. Governor Jim Hodges, and thelate founder of Hooters, Bob Brooks. Burch is a former business editor and former features editor for aKnight Ridder daily newspaper. He has won awards from the North Carolina Press Association and theSouth Carolina Press Association. He is currently a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, theNational Book Critics Circle, and the Committee of Concerned Journalists, and he is an affiliate memberof the Religion Newswriters Association. Lately, he has been teaching freshman writing and sophomoreliterature classes at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C. His freelance work has appeared in The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, The Sumter (S.C.) Item, The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.), The Weekly Surge (Myrtle Beach, S.C.), Iodine: A Poetry Journal, and Appraisal: The Journal of the Society for Post-Critical and Personalist Studies. Colin and his wife, Kristi, spent four months in 1998 studying atthe L'Abri Fellowship branch in Greatham, England. In 2006, he received a writing scholarship to attendthe C.S. Lewis Foundation's Summer Institute, held at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., where he participated in workshops conducted by poet and playwright Jeanne Murray Walker. Colin holds abachelors degree in English from N.C. State University, and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Queens University in Charlotte. He attends Trinity Episcopal Church in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where he is alay teacher and a former vestry member, and his wife Kristi is the children's ministry director. Colin andKristi have three daughters. Colin can be reached at colin@liturgicalcredo.com.

Jess Upshaw GlassFiction EditorJess Glass holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Mary Washington, where she studied under Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Claudia Emerson, and a Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. As an undergraduate, she was the literary editor for Aubade, theuniversity's literary magazine, and she was a yearbook photographer. She won the annual writing contestat UMW for her paper on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. She had a brief stint as a newspaper copy editor,and her reviews have been published in The Free Lance-Star and The Caroline Progress. She alsoteaches the toddler class at Common Ground Christian Church in Fredericksburg, Va. She and herhusband, Chris, have a dog named Sharkbait and a cat named Rutherford B. Hayes.

Byron HarrisAssociate EditorByron Harris is a former assignment editor for CNN. He holds a Master of Arts in Theological Studies inOld Testament from Columbia Theological Seminary, where he studied under Walter Brueggeman. Healso holds a Master of Arts in Teaching English from Agnes Scott College. Byron and his wife, Rie, ownand operate Splintered Light Bookstore in Charlottesville, Va.; www.splinteredlightbooks.com.

Charles B. Jordan, Jr.Editorial AdviserCharles Jordan is an attorney in Myrtle Beach, S.C. He holds a bachelors degree in religion and politicalscience from The College of William & Mary, and a juris doctor degree with honors from the University of South Carolina. He is formerly Senior Warden at Trinity Episcopal Church in Myrtle Beach, where heteaches the senior high Sunday school class. Charlie and his wife, Amy, have two children.

Peter ReinhartEditorial AdviserPeter Reinhart is an acknowledged expert on bread, a full-time baking instructor at Johnson & WalesUniversity in Charlotte, N.C., and author of several books, including Sacramental Magic in a SmallCafé; Brother Juniper's Bread Book: Slow Rise as Method and Metaphor; American Pie: My Searchfor the Perfect Pizza; and Crust & Crumb: Master Formulas for Serious Bakers. He recently completeda new book on whole grain breads, which was released in 2007 by Ten Speed Press.